Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

Modern humans first appeared only 200,000 years ago. Vocativ created this graphic showing how the fossil has changed what we know about the timeline of the origin of humankind. Read the full story ...

MailOnline's graphic below shows this 'hidden chapter' in human evolution spanning from 1.5 million years ago (top) until the modern-day (bottom). For the study, the team used data from the ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected ...

Debates over human evolution weren’t confined to the pages of esoteric scientific journals at the time — Johanson and fellow paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey sparred over their differing ...

Humans were living in rainforests roughly 150,000 years ago, some 80,000 years earlier than was previously thought—and may have been an important center for early human evolution. This is the ...

Scientists believe the late Middle Pleistocene, which started around 300,000 years ago, was a pivotal period for the evolution of hominins — species that are regarded as human or closely related ...

This is in contrast with the widely-held belief that recent human evolution has halted. The research has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Professor Henry ...

Spending less time on mastication may go hand in hand with human evolution. By Kate Golembiewski Humans spend about 35 minutes every day chewing. That adds up to more than a full week out of every ...